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European Cloud Providers
There is a growing landscape of European cloud providers. All of them are offering basic IaaS services, such as VMs and managed databases. Differences are in the PaaS offering, in AI and in serverless services.
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STACKIT
Read more: STACKIT – The German business cloudSTACKIT is the newcomer, officially launched in 2024. STACKIT has very high momentum, with new services being added at a high pace.
STACKIT is a brand of Schwarz Digits, backed by the Schwarz group, the largest retail company in Europe, based in Germany.
STACKIT primarily targets business clients in the DACH region, and offers some unique features, such as Google Workplace.
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Open Telekom CloudRead more: Open Telekom Cloud – The cloud platform of Deutsche Telekom AGOpen Telekom Cloud is operated by Deutsche Telekom AG.
Open Telekom Cloud offers a range of IaaS cloud services. Furthermore, they are offering higher-level services including managed Kubernetes, big data services, managed AI and serverless functions.
Deutsche Telekom AG is also operating a GCP instance.
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Scaleway
Read more: Scaleway – Europe’s empowering cloud providerScaleway is cloud provider with a good set of higher-level services, such as managed AI and serverless services services, e.g. a serverless container service and a serverless database.
With a history going back to 1999, Scaleway has a proven track record and has one of the most advanced cloud service portfolios in the European landscape.